Index of words, starting with fe

(1) - Feather (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
(2) - Feather (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
(3) - Feather (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
(4) - Feather (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
(5) - Feather (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
(6) - Feather (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
(7) - Feather (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
(8) - Feather (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
(9) - Feather (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
(10) - Feather (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
(11) - Feather (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
(12) - Feather (v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
(13) - Feather (v. t.) To tread, as a cock.
(14) - Feather (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
(15) - Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
(16) - Feather (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
(17) - Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

Index of English words, starting with "fe"